It would be my prayer that the
Lord will enable me to preach this message and apply it to
our hearts. So we've got to leave here singing
that song. Lord, I'm coming. I'm coming
to Thee. Alright, if you would open your
Bibles with me to 2 Chronicles 2. I've titled the message this
morning, Who is Able to Build Him a House? Solomon had determined
to build a temple to the Lord. His father David wanted to build
it, but the Lord told David, no. He said, I've selected your
son Solomon to build me a house. And now the time has come. Solomon
is now king and it's come time for him to build that temple. And Solomon's not just going
about this thing half cocked. He's entered this thing carefully,
prayerfully. And I can tell he's thought about
it because he asked a very good question. in verse five, 2 Chronicles
chapter two. And the house which I build is
great, for great is our God above all gods, but who is able to
build him in house? Seeing the heaven and heaven
of heavens cannot contain him. Who am I then that I should build
him in house, save only to burn sacrifice before him? Now Solomon
asked a really good question. How can I build a house that's
glorious enough, that's big enough for the Lord? The heavens can't
contain God. How am I gonna build a house
to contain him? Well, you're not. Solomon, you can't do it.
And you know, that made me think about the buildings where we
worship. You know, we try as best we can to make them as nice
and comfortable as we can. but we're never gonna make them
big enough and grand enough to contain the God of glory, are
we? We're never gonna make anything worthy of his glory. Solomon's
temple was built by 150,000 laborers. They had 3,600 supervisors. The
temple was 2,700 square feet. In today's dollars, that temple
would cost between three and six billion dollars to build. Just to give you a point of reference,
the new Freedom Tower in New York City cost 3.9 billion dollars
to build. Solomon's Temple was in that
range, dollar-wise. And after as large as that was,
as expensive as it was to build, Solomon's Temple still wasn't
able to contain the glory of God or to show us the true glory
of God. I mean, you know that building
was something else, wasn't it? And it still wasn't glorious
enough for God. Now here's an example of how
gracious and how condescending our God is. Even though Solomon's
temple was not worthy of God's glory, God still said, I'm going
to meet with my people there. I'll allow my people to worship
me there. I'm going to reveal myself to my people there. I'm
going to hear the prayer of my people. And when I hear, I'll
forgive. Everything in that temple. Here's
why God heard the prayers of his people there. Here's why
God was allowed himself to be worshiped there. It's because
everything in that temple was a picture of Christ. It wasn't
just a building. It was all pictures of Christ.
Now the temple had the pictures of Christ, but it couldn't contain
all the glory of God, could it? But God in his power did something
that Solomon could not do with that enormous building. God made
a building. God made a tabernacle that was
worthy of God's glory. And you know what that building
was? It was the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, the son of God
who became flesh and tabernacled among us. Solomon's glory, Temple
could never contain the glory of God, but by His power, Almighty
God made all of His glory to be contained in one man. That
temple could not contain the glory of God. A man walked in
it. All the glory of God was in that
man, in one man. God made everything that He is
to dwell in the body of one man, the Lord Jesus Christ. That temple
could not contain God any more than the heavens could contain
God, but God made the everything that he is to be contained in
the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's a miracle. It's a miracle. I know that's so because this
is what scripture says. Colossians 1 verse 19. It pleased
the Father that in him, in Christ, should all fullness dwell. All
the fullness of God, it pleased him to make all that fullness
dwell in the Lord Jesus Christ. Colossians 2 verse nine, for
in him dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. All the
fullness of the Godhead dwelt in the body of the Lord Jesus
Christ. The fullness of God's wisdom
is found in Christ. the fullness of his grace, the
fullness of his mercy, the fullness of his love, the fullness of
his salvation, the fullness of his justice, the fullness of
his righteousness, the fullness of his holiness, it was all in
the body of the Lord Jesus Christ in one man. The best Solomon
could do with his temple is make it contain pictures of Christ,
pictures of how God's gonna save his people. All of that was actually
in the body of Christ. One man came and accomplished
all of that. Now I'm gonna give you a few examples of the things
that Solomon put in his temple so we see how they're pictures
of Christ. And I hope when we see this, this is my goal, my
prayer, that when we see these things, we see that God has put
everything that sinners like you and me need in one place.
He's put them all in Christ so that we'll run to him, so that
we'll run to him. Now, if you read the following
chapters, if you want to this afternoon, you can do that, but
this is what you'll find Solomon put in the temple. The first
thing I noticed was Solomon covered almost everything with gold.
I mean, can you imagine going into this building and seeing
the walls and some of the floors covered with gold? They're covered
with gold. And that building still wasn't
worthy of God's glory. Everything's covered with gold.
I tell you why I covered everything with gold, because gold is a
picture of the pure deity of our Lord Jesus Christ. The man
Jesus of Nazareth is God. He is God. And that gives him,
since he's God, that's why he has the power to save, the righteousness
to save, the holiness to save, the right to save, because he's
God. Now that brings such comfort
to the hearts of God's people. That's just not some controversial
doctrine. I know some people don't believe
that. They think Jesus was just a prophet or just even a very
special prophet. They don't think he's God. And
I don't point that out. This is a doctrinal difference
between those people who don't know no better. This brings such
comfort to the hearts of God's people. If the Lord Jesus Christ
is God, he cannot fail to save everybody he can save. And since
he's God, he did save everybody he came to save, and he can never
lose one that he intended to save. Not one, because he's God. Brethren, we are secure in Christ
because he's God. This is a savior we can trust,
he's God. And gold also pictures the preciousness
of Christ. If we'll get a hold of that,
we'll get a whole lot better sense of the glory of the gospel. This thing is not just a forensic
thing where justice was satisfied. This is, you know, some paper
shuffled and stamped. The preciousness of the gospel
is the preciousness of Christ. He's the only righteous man to
ever live. He's the only one who ever obeyed
God perfectly. Now that makes him precious.
You know, something that's one of a kind, it's precious, isn't
it? The Lord Jesus Christ is one
of a kind and he's precious. He's so precious that his blood
is able to pay the redemption price for a number no man can
number, to wash them white as snow. Now I understand everybody
doesn't see that, But Peter said, unto you therefore which believe,
oh, he's precious. And the word is actually preciousness. Unto you therefore which believe,
the Lord Jesus Christ is preciousness itself. Everything in him and
everything about him is precious. Isn't it precious that someone
like him could love someone like us? Isn't that precious? Isn't
it precious that someone as glorious as he is would sacrifice himself
for somebody as low down as we are? Isn't that precious? It's
precious that he would condescend to meet with us, enable us to
worship. I mean, here we are, this whole
wide world today, all around this country, people are meeting
together in buildings and saying they've met together to worship
and saying they're a church and saying they're preaching about
Jesus. I mean, all those people. And
then just think about believers. How many believers, right this
very moment, are meeting together doing what we're doing right
now, preaching the gospel? Our Savior is condescended, whether
it's just two or three to meet together with. He's condescended
to be with us this morning. enable us to worship Him, enable
us to hear from Him. Isn't that precious? It's precious. Our Savior, who's
God of the universe, who rules everything that's happening in
the universe all at one time, is never too busy to come to
His people and comfort them. He's never too busy to hear the
cries of His poor people. and to comfort them with his
presence. It's no wonder he is precious to everybody that believes
him. That's what Solomon's gold represented. Then Solomon made
two cherubim that he put in the Holy of Holies. I don't know
what he made them of. They were made out of wood or made out
of something, but he overlaid them with gold. And these were
big statues, if you will. Each wing of those cherubim was
over nine feet long. They stood wingtip to wingtip,
spread out over 36 feet, tip to tip, each touched the opposite
ends of the Holy of Holies. And now these cherubim, they're
angels. And get out of your head, I know
we all think of you, they're not cute little chubby children
that's got wings on them. These cherubim, if we would see
them, they're frightening beings. They're mighty, powerful beings,
the servants of God. It was the cherubim that God
gave that sword, which turned every which way to guard the
tree of life, that Adam not come back to it. That's cherubim.
They're carrying out the judicial power, the judicial decree of
God. But cherubim's also pictures
of the power of God, specifically the sacrifice of Christ. Remember
when Moses made the mercy seat, the mercy seat covered the arc
of the covenant and it was made of pure gold. There's a solid
slab of gold and they hammered out these cherubim on either
end of the mercy seat and their wings covered the mercy seat. And in the shadow of those wings
on the mercy seat, that's where the high priest would sprinkle
the blood on the mercy seat every year on the day of atonement.
And God said, between those wings of the cherubim, I'm gonna dwell
there. The Shekinah glory of God was
under the wings of those cherubim where the blood of the sacrifice
was sprinkled. And God said, that's where I'll meet with me,
under the wings of those cherubim. And when Solomon was done with
his building, he's got those in the holy of holies, those
two giant cherubim with their wings all stretched out, that's
where he put the Ark of the Covenant, underneath the wings of those
cherubim. Now all of that, I mean, pretty
spectacular sight if we saw it, but that's given to us as a picture
of something a whole lot more glorious than that. This is God
giving us a picture. This is how the holy God will
meet with sinful men and women. He'll meet with them at the mercy
seat, in Christ our mercy seat, in Christ our propitiation. Now God will meet with men in
peace, he will. but he'll only meet with men
in peace where the blood has been shed and the blood has been
sprinkled, where the blood has been applied. And that's why
David said, David understood this. He said, I'm gonna hide
under the shadow of thy wing. Now, when I was just a little
fella, I thought, well, that's talking about like those chicks,
you know, that hide under the shadow of their mother's wing
to keep them safe from the hawk flying above or something. But
David means it's something a whole lot more special than that. He's
talking about hiding under the shadow of the wings of the cherubim
over the mercy seat. In that shadow, where the blood
of the sacrifice has been sprinkled. David said, that's where I'm
gonna hide. That's where I'm gonna hide.
This is what it's telling us. If you hide in Christ, if you're
trusting Christ alone, your soul, is eternally secure. A whole
lot more secure than a chick hiding under the wings of a hen,
wouldn't you say? Everyone who trusts in Christ
is completely safe. Completely safe from all harm. I know there's things that will
harm our bodies and hurt our bodies, sickness and disease
and all these things, but a believer has nothing to fear. When you
go home this afternoon, there is a outstanding article in the
back of the bulletin. Brother Brady wrote it. And he
tells us in that article, don't fear. And you'll notice in that
article, I want you to read that article carefully. He never said,
well, don't fear just because there's nothing to fear. He tells
us don't fear because of who God is. Don't fear because of
what God said. Don't fear because of what God
promised. If you're trusting in Christ, you've got nothing
to fear because of what God said, because of what God promised.
And you know why? If you're in Christ, you've got
nothing to fear. It's because the blood of Christ that he shed
as a sacrifice for the sins of his people, that blood, his suffering,
his death, satisfied God's justice for all the sin of all of his
people. God will never, ever punish your
sin if Christ died for you. Now, I know he'll correct us
and he'll teach us, but he'll never punish you. Never. You
don't ever have to fear standing before the judgment seat of Christ
if you're trusting Christ. Because he knows better than
anybody, his blood puts your sin away. Solomon made those
great cherubim. He put that Ark of the Covenant
under their wings. But you know, a person could
hide under the shadow of those wings. They could lay hold of
that mercy seat and they could try to escape judgment and justice,
but they could still take you from there. Solomon did. There
was a man hiding in there. Solomon said, time of justice
has come. Time of mercy is over. And he told him, you take him
off that altar. And you take him out there and
kill him. A person could hide under those physical wings, be
slain. If you're hiding in Christ, You
can never die. Nobody can pluck you out of his
hand. And you can't jump out. You're safe in him. Then Solomon
made a veil to hang between the holy place and the holy of holies. And that veil was made up of
many colors. It's a beautiful tapestry, skillfully made. And it had several colors in
it. And all those colors picture Christ. The veil was made of
white linen, which is a picture of the holiness of Christ, his
purity. And get a hold of this now. His
holiness is the holiness of his people. Everybody knows Christ is holy.
But if you're in Christ, you're as holy as he is, because he's
your holiness. That veil had purple stitching
in it, which is a picture of Christ our King. the one that
we submit to, the one we submit under his rule. Purple is the
color of kings. Now, if the king commands you
to be saved, if the king demands you be showed mercy, you're gonna
be saved and you're gonna receive mercy, because the king commands
it. Then purple is also a combination.
It's a combination of blue and red. Blue, the color of heaven,
red, the color of earth. That's Christ, the God-man, the
man who came from heaven. Christ, our Savior, is God. So he's holy. He can satisfy
God's holiness because he is God. But our Savior is also a
man so he can be our representative. So he can obey the law as our
representative as the second Adam. He's a man so he can be
our substitute and die for the sin of his people. Now, all the
miracle of salvation can only be accomplished by the God-man.
The God-man has to come and obey the law for his people. And it's
the God-man who must die for the sin of his people. See, the
sin of the first Adam separated all of his race, every human
being, separated us from God so that we cannot come back into
God's presence. We can't do it, we're dead. We're
dead in sin. God will never accept us in our
sin. But Christ came, and by his obedience and by his death,
he brings all of his race, all those people that the father
gave him to save, he brings back to God accepted. Now that's what this veil represents.
I can show you that. Look over Hebrews chapter 10. You all know the story of what
happened when our savior died. They didn't take his life from
him. He gave up the ghost. And when Christ gave up the ghost,
you know what happened? That veil was torn in two from
top to bottom, showing us that the way to God is now wide open
because of the death of Christ. The way to God is now wide open. As long as you come to God in
Christ alone, the way to God is wide open for any sinner who
will come in Christ. Hebrews 10 verse 19. Having therefore, brethren, boldness,
confidence to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
by a new and living way which he hath consecrated us through
the veil, that is to say, his flesh, his flesh, and having
an high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with
a true heart and full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled
from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Now he's consecrated, he's opened
this way for us through the veil, which is to say, his flesh. That veil that hung that separated
the holy place from the holy of holies is a picture of the
body, the flesh of Christ. Now before Christ died, before
he gave up the ghost, only the high priest could come into the
holy of holies. And he could only come in one day a year,
couldn't he? On the day of atonement, he could come with blood, but
only one day a year. But normal peons like you and
me, We could never have come into the Holy of Holies. But
once Christ died, and that veil was torn in two from top to bottom,
anybody could come. Anybody could see, anybody could.
Notice it wasn't torn from left to right, it was torn from top
to bottom. Tall sinners and short sinners. Fat sinners and skinny
sinners. Sinners who got to crawl, sinners
who can walk. Any sinner can come into the
presence of God through the sacrifice. the body that was sacrificed,
the body of Christ. And we can come, the writer here
says, boldly. Well, that high priest didn't
come into the Holy of Holies on the day of atonement, he didn't
come boldly. He came carefully. They put bells on the bottom
of his robe so they could tell if he's, is he still alive? We
hear the bells ringing, he's still alive, he's still moving
around. He came carefully. He brought that censer in, he
brought the blood, he sprinkled the blood, he was so careful
to do everything just right. So God didn't smite him. I mean,
he was careful. A believer can come into the
very presence of the thrice holy God confident. Boldly. Knowing will be accepted. As
long as we come in Christ alone. I can't come confidently if I
say, oh, you know, Laura, I spent my week, you know, studying and
and doing the work of the Lord. I've been preaching this week.
I've been just, you know, I can't even confidence anything I've
done, you can't either. If I gotta come to God in who
I am and what I've done, that's when you come full of fear, full
of doubts, and you should, because we know we can't be accepted.
But if we come in the merits of Christ alone, we'll be accepted. Now you think of that. That's
how precious and valuable the sacrifice of Christ is. You know, if we're honest, most
of us, if you could travel back in time and see Solomon's temple,
that'd be pretty cool, wouldn't it? I'd like to see that. And
it would be an impressive building. It would be something to see.
But do you know what? All these years later, here we
sit, seeing Christ by faith in his word is immeasurably better
than seeing Solomon's temple. How God's blessed us. to be able
to see Christ by faith, to be able to trust Him. Then Solomon
made gigantic pillars that held up at least the roof over Solomon's
porch, maybe in the building too, made these giant, giant
pillars. They're 73 feet high. And you
know those pillars are pictures of Christ, don't you? The Lord
Jesus Christ holds up all of salvation. He holds it all up. He does it by himself. He upholds
all of the gospel. He upholds everything we believe. Without Christ, everything we
believe falls flat, everything. He by himself upholds all of
the purpose of God. The father gave all of his purpose
of redemption, all of his purpose for the world, he gave it to
his son and his son upholds it all. He upholds salvation so
that his people can never perish. He holds them in His hands so
they can never perish, so they can never be taken away from
Him. But again, Christ is so much
better than the picture. I mean, I just wonder, how did
they build those pillars 73 feet high? How'd they do that without
cranes? How'd they do that without power tools? I mean, you know,
there'd be something to see. But Christ is so much better
than the picture. You know what happened? between 650, 700 AD. You know what happened to those
pillars? Old Nebuchadnezzar came and tore
them down. He tore them down. And then,
some while later, Zerubbabel came. He rebuilt, I don't know
what happened to his temple if somebody tore it down, but eventually
Herod rebuilt the temple. That's the temple that our Lord
walked in. About 70 AD, the Romans came and obliterated the thing.
I mean, they just obliterated it. I've never been there, but
I have seen pictures. There are a few stones left from
Solomon's temple. Stones that Solomon laid. He
had laid there. But they're among the ruins.
They're among the ruins. Solomon's pillars came tumbling
down. That's the picture. The salvation that Christ established
for his people will never be torn down. Never. It'll never
be in ruins. I mean, not one stone of it will
be, not one. If Christ has saved you, you
will always be perfect. You'll always be complete. Now
I'm going to get to this in just a minute, but when you look at
yourself, all you're going to see is sin, but you're still
complete and perfect in Christ and you'll never be in ruins.
Never, never be ashamed. Wouldn't you reckon those Jews
were ashamed? when they saw Nebuchadnezzar
come tear down this glorious temple. Oh, how they took pride
in Solomon's temple, and Nebuchadnezzar did away with it. Then they are
proud of Herod's temple. I mean, the disciples told the
Lord, look at this place. The Lord said, well, there's
one greater than Solomon's come. Weren't they ashamed when the
Romans came toward it? They never could rebuild it.
If you believe in Christ, you'll never be ashamed because you'll
never be found guilty. Then Solomon made candlesticks,
I think he made 10 of them. Those candlesticks are pictures
of Christ, who's the light of the world. Now we preach Christ,
and here's why. Because you only ever see, you
only ever understand, you only ever believe the gospel in the
light of who Christ is, in his light. The only way I ever see
my sin is by seeing the light of Christ. Until I see Christ,
until I see His perfection, I think I'm pretty good. But not when
I see Him. I've got to see myself in the
light of who He is before I understand my sinfulness. The only way I
can see who God is, is in the light of Christ. Now, do you want to see God?
Would anybody here like to see God? You want to know what God's
like? You know how God operates? Tell you what to do. Look to
Calvary. At Calvary, this is what you
find out. God is holy. God is inflexibly just. He put his own son to death when
his son was made sin. He wouldn't even spare his own
son. But at Calvary, you also see God is merciful. God is gracious. God loves sinners. You and I
can't imagine the depth of God's love his mercy and his grace
for his people that would move him to slaughter his only begotten
son so he could show mercy to the likes of us. That's grace,
but it's got to be given in truth. God's justice must be satisfied
first. See, the best place to see the
character of God is at Calvary. I can see who God is in the light
of Christ crucified. That's how we see who God is.
And the only way I can see how God can save a sinner like me,
it's in the light of Christ. Once I see Christ, oh, it's crystal
clear, I see. I can only be righteous by the
obedience of Christ. I can't obey the law, he has
to obey it for me. It's obvious once I see him.
Once I see Christ, it's obvious, oh. The only way my sin can be
paid for is the blood of the Son of God. He must shed his
blood as a propitiation for my sin. Now I see, now I see. Now you might wonder, do I see? Do I see? You might wonder now,
have I seen anything in the light of Christ? Or do I just know
doctrine? Do I just know the right doctrine?
Do I know the right words to say because, especially for our
young people that have been raised under the sound of the gospel,
you never heard anything else? Mentally, you think this is true,
don't you? But have you ever wondered, do
I see this? Do I see in the light of Christ?
Let me see if I can help you. I hope somebody's asking that
question, because I believe I got something to help you. If you
see any reason in yourself that God would save you, are you a
little better than somebody else, or you've attended the right
church, you've memorized the right memory verses, you know
what they mean, you know about a tulip, you know about all those
things, you know. Is there something in you different
from somebody else that would make God save you? Do you see
that about yourself? If you do, you're blind. If that's
what you think you see, you're still in complete darkness. But
if you don't see any reason in yourself that God would be merciful
to you, if you can't find any reason that God would save you
other than Christ alone, grace alone and mercy alone, then you
see, you see, let me show you that John chapter nine. If you
see that the only reason God would save you is the obedience
of Christ and the sacrifice of Christ, then you see, John nine, verse 39. And Jesus says for judgment,
I'm coming to this world that they would see, might not see. And they would, or that they
would see not, might see, and that they would see, might be
made blind. This is what the Lord's telling
them. He's come to those, They can't see any goodness in themselves.
They can't see any reason that God would save them. He came
to make them see. To see Him. To see salvations
all in Him. And those would see. Those would
think that they see some goodness in them. I mean, that's what
the Pharisees saw. They saw goodness in themselves.
They obeyed the law. They paid their tithes. They
came to all the feast days and the Sabbath days and did all
those things, you know. They could see a reason why God would
be merciful to them. Why God would save them. Christ
said, I can't make those people blind. Judicial blindness so
they can't see me. And do you know the Pharisees
who were there listening understood exactly what the Lord was saying?
Look at verse 40. And some of the Pharisees that
were with him heard these words and said, are we blind also?
They said, you're talking about us, aren't you? Jesus said unto
them, if you are blind, you should have no seeing. If you knew you
were blind, you can't see anything in yourself good, You'd have
no sin, I'd take it away. But now you say, we see, therefore
your sin remaineth. That's what those candlesticks
all represented. It's the light of Christ. If
you see yourself in the light of Christ, your sin's taken away. Then Solomon got down to brass
tacks. Solomon built this whole building
for this purpose, the brazen altar. The purpose, the business
of Solomon's temple was to offer burnt offering on that brazen
altar. God can only be worshiped with
a blood sacrifice. That sacrifice must be burnt
under the fire of God's justice. That was the business of the
brazen altar. That was the business of the
tabernacle. And everything that went on at this altar, it's all
pictures of Christ. Christ is the high priest who
came and offered the sacrifice. Christ is the sacrifice on the
altar, and Christ is the altar. And now what the writer of the
Hebrews said, we have an altar? Now this altar was 35 feet by 35
feet by 17 and a half feet tall. It was made of solid brass, of
hand-breadth Thick, it says. Now, brass is an alloy. It's
a combination of copper and zinc. That's a picture of the two natures
of Christ. He's both God and man. It's the
only way the sacrifice can put away sin, if the sacrifice is
both God and man. Now, brass is known for its strength. It had to stand up to high temperatures. I mean, 35 by 35. They fill that thing with wood
and start a fire, it's hot. It's hot. That brass had to stand
up to high temperatures. Well, that's a picture of Christ.
He's the mighty one of God that God sent to accomplish the salvation
of his people. Christ our Savior suffered all
of the fire of God's wrath against the sin of his people without
any hint of mercy. The Father never turned the temperature
down any. He gave him the full heat, the full fire of his hatred
against sin, poured it all out upon his son. And in that sacrifice,
the Lord Jesus didn't melt away. He didn't melt under the fire
of God's wrath. If he did, nobody could be saved. But in his strength, he withstood
that fire of God's wrath and he endured it all until the fire
went out. And the fire only went out, not
because the father was saying, okay, you can't take anymore.
That's not why the fire went out. The fire went out because
sin, which fueled the fire, was gone, put away by the sacrifice
of Christ. And that altar stood on 12 oxen,
three each facing each direction of the compass, north, south,
east, and west. You know what that's a picture
of? Christ came to save sinners from all over the world. Are
you from the North, the South, the East, or the West? You're
from one of them, aren't you? Christ came to save a people
from all those directions. You fit in there? Come to Christ. Come to Christ. He came to save
sinners. He's the Savior that sinners
can depend upon. Isn't it amazing to you that
God put everything that he is in that one man so he could accomplish
the salvation of his people. Solomon couldn't do it in that
giant building. God put it all in one man. I've said it before,
I'm gonna say it again. God made salvation easy to find.
He put it all in one place. Now go to Christ, it's all in
him. And if you believe on Christ,
all the fullness of the Godhead dwells in him. And if you believe
on Him, you're complete. If you believe on Christ, all
the fullness of the Godhead dwells in the body of the Lord Jesus
Christ. And if you're in Christ, if you believe on Him, you're
filled with Christ. Let me show you that in closing,
Colossians chapter two. If you're filled with Christ,
you're complete in Christ, you can never perish because there's
no reason that you would. Because Christ has made you perfect. Colossians 2 verse 9. For in him dwelt all the fullness
of the Godhead bodily, and you're complete. You're complete in
him, which is the head for all principality and power. That's amazing, isn't it? A sinner
complete in him. Can you think of a better reason
to run to Christ begging for mercy? that should be made complete
in Him, I can. I end like I started. I hope
we're all singing that song Sean and Tara sung for us in our heart. I mean in our heart, meaning
it. I'm coming. I'm coming. All right, let's
bow together. Our Father, we thank You for this glorious picture
of Christ our Savior. And we thank You for the truth
of who He is. And Father, I pray that You would
take Your word, that You'd Take this revelation of your darling
son and reveal it to each heart here. Their hearts would be broken at the thought of who he is and
what he has accomplished for his people, how low he stooped
to accomplish the redemption of his people, that we might
be glorified together with you. Father, how we thank you. Father,
I pray you take your word as it's been preached. Cause it
to shine forth the glory of your son. For it is in his name and
his sake we pray. Amen.